curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS.md
Daniel Stenberg eefcc1bda4
docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
  their man page section is specified)

tools:

- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown

This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.

CI:

Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...

Closes #12730
2024-01-23 00:29:02 +01:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION (3)
- CURLOPT_STDERR (3)
- CURLOPT_URL (3)
- curl_url_set (3)
---
# NAME
CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS - do not handle dot dot sequences
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS, long leaveit);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
Set the long *leaveit* to 1, to explicitly tell libcurl to not alter the
given path before passing it on to the server.
This instructs libcurl to NOT squash sequences of "/../" or "/./" that may
exist in the URL's path part and that is supposed to be removed according to
RFC 3986 section 5.2.4.
Some server implementations are known to (erroneously) require the dot dot
sequences to remain in the path and some clients want to pass these on in
order to try out server implementations.
By default libcurl normalizes such sequences before using the path.
The corresponding flag for the curl_url_set(3) function is called
**CURLU_PATH_AS_IS**.
# DEFAULT
0
# PROTOCOLS
All
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL,
"https://example.com/../../etc/password");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS, 1L);
curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
}
~~~
# AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.42.0
# RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.